This material is a very, very good match to material of A. marmorata that was imported to Hawaii and South Africa. In both cases new names were created; however, on morphological grounds I had argued that both names were synonyms. This collection seems to make a third line of the triangle. This material from this observation is very strongly supported as being A. marmorata.

A very cool find from the point of view of a guy very far away.

Happy New Year, Lucy. Thanks for sending this great material.

While we didn’t get a complete nrITS (proposed fungal barcode) sequence we got over 1300 characters of the nrLSU sequence.

The pattern of the cap is distinctive. My concern after seeing material with this patterning with Australian-origin trees in other countries, is whether there is color variation in one taxon or more than one taxon.

It would be interesting to know whether the shade of gray on these caps is constant in the material you see.